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Physicists Find Way to Explore Microscopic Systems Through Holographic Video

Physicists at New York University have developed a technique to record three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video. The work, which is reported in Optics Express, has potential to improve medical diagnostics and drug discovery.

20 Jul 2009

Olympus Introduces New LightManager Module for its Upright Microscopes

Olympus has introduced the exciting new LightManager module for its BX41 and BX51 upright microscopes. The highly intuitive Olympus LightManager can be retrofitted and enables the user to set the desired illumination intensities for each objective and technique in use.

20 Jul 2009

VEE GEE Scientific Announces Improvements to its VanGuard 1400 Series Laboratory Microscopes

The upgraded clinical microscopes now feature infinity-corrected optics, high-eyepoint eyepieces with a larger viewing field, integrated Koehler illumination, and darkfield illumination on all phase contrast microscopes for added versatility.

18 Jul 2009

New Leica TCS SP5 II: Fast Frame Rates, Best Resolution and Depth Imaging with Full Multi-channel Capabilities

In close cooperation with leading research scientists, Leica Microsystems has optimized its confocal and two photon platform Leica TCS SP5 II for today’s and future challenging requirements in life science research.

15 Jul 2009

In Tune System for Laser Scanning Microscopy Offers Free Selection of Laser Lines

The explosion in the number of new fluorescent dyes has opened up exciting new opportunities for life science researchers. However, each requires the microscope system to be equipped with an appropriate excitation laser, a limitation that has greatly restricted their adoption.

15 Jul 2009

New Clean Room Facility Features Laser Processing of Microelectronics, Semiconductors, and Photovoltaic Materials

Deep Photonics, the ultra fast fiber laser company for the semiconductor, electronics and photovoltaic marketplace, announced the opening of a new materials processing applications lab at its corporate headquarters in Corvallis, Oregon.

14 Jul 2009

Michelson Diagnostics Delivers EX1301 OCT Microscope to its First US Customer

Michelson Diagnostics Limited (MDL), the UK manufacturer of Multi-Beam Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) scanners, is pleased to announce delivery of a unit to its first US customer. The EX1301 OCT Microscope is being used by the Center for Pharmacogenomics, Washington University in St. Louis, for cardiology research studying the dynamics of fruit fly hearts.

14 Jul 2009

Primo Star iLED for Training and Routine Fluorescence Microscopy

The Primo Star iLED microscope from Carl Zeiss is now available with three additional fluorescence attachments that allow users to work with different dyes such as FITC, Dapi and Rhodamine/Cy 3. This permits the use of the LED-based microscope for single fluorescence applications in training, routine procedures and basic research.

9 Jul 2009

Collecting Images Like a Camera But Without a Lens

Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him. In work that could turn such science fiction into reality, MIT researchers have developed light-detecting fibers that, when weaved into a web, act as a flexible camera.

7 Jul 2009

Zecotek Photonics Green Fiber Laser Selected by Russian Academy of Sciences

Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ZMS)(FRANKFURT:W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that its proprietary Green Fiber Laser GFL 550 has been selected by the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk) as the main laser source for Raman spectrometers in solid-state research and for confocal microscopy in biomedical (DNA) research.

2 Jul 2009